Nahid Islam, a 26-year-old sociology student, led a movement against job quotas that grew into a campaign to remove Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after 15 years in power.
Often seen in public with a Bangladeshi flag tied across his forehead, Nahid Islam is a soft-spoken sociology student who spearheaded the protest that ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after 15 straight years in power. Islam, 26, was the coordinator of a student movement against quotas in government jobs that morphed into an oust-Hasina campaign. He rose to national fame in mid-July after police detained him and some other Dhaka University students as the protests turned deadly.
Islam and other student leaders were due to meet army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman at noon on Tuesday. Zaman had announced Hasina's resignation and said an interim government would be formed. Islam, who speaks unemotionally but firmly in public, has said the students would not accept any government led or supported by the army and has proposed that Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus be the chief adviser.
We will create a new democratic Bangladesh through our promise of security of life, social justice and a new political landscape.' He vowed to ensure the country of 170 million never returns to what he called 'Fascist rule' and asked fellow students to protect its Hindu minority and their places of worship. Islam, who was born in Dhaka in 1998, is married and has a younger brother, Nakib. His father is a teacher and his mother a homemaker.
This might very well be the first successful Gen Z-led revolution,' she said. 'There is perhaps some optimism for a democratic transition even if the military is involved in the process.'
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